Marina Vannucci

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Marina Vannucci
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Marina Vannucci in 2024
Education University of Florence
Scientific career
Fields Statistics
Institutions Rice University
Thesis On the Application of Wavelets in Statistics  (1996)
Doctoral advisor Antonio Moro


Marina Vannucci (born 1966) [1] is an Italian statistician, the Noah Harding Professor and Chair of Statistics at Rice University, the past president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and the former editor-in-chief of Bayesian Analysis . Topics in her research include wavelets, feature selection, and cluster analysis in Bayesian statistics.

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Education and career

Vannucci earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1992, from the University of Florence. She completed her doctorate in statistics in 1996 at the same institution. [2] Her dissertation, supervised by Antonio Moro, was On the Application of Wavelets in Statistics. [3] After postdoctoral research at the University of Kent, she joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1998, and moved to Rice in 2007.

She was editor-in-chief of Bayesian Analysis for 2013–2015, [2] and was elected president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the 2018 term. [4]

Awards and honors

Vannucci is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (2006), [2] the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2009), [2] [5] the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), [2] [6] and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2014), and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (2007). [2] The citation for her IMS fellowship credits her "for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of Bayesian methods for variable selection, and of wavelet-based modeling, and for mentorship of young researchers". [5] She was given the Noah Harding Chair in 2016. [7]

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References

  1. Birthdate from Worldcat
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Vannucci, Marina (September 9, 2017), Brief bio , retrieved 2017-10-24
  3. Marina Vannucci at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Executive Committee, International Society for Bayesian Analysis , retrieved 2017-10-24
  5. 1 2 IMS Announces 2009 Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, May 8, 2009, retrieved 2017-10-24
  6. "Seventeen Members Elected Fellows of AAAS", Amstat News, American Statistical Association, January 1, 2013
  7. Vannucci named Noah Harding Chair, Rice University Department of Statistics, September 26, 2016, retrieved 2017-10-24